Video game withdrawl

[Magnetic2]

I started this topic because I have noticed in my own life that when I get time to sit down and hammer through a game in a week or so, that when it's done my mind is still stuck in the game, and I have to stay away from it for a day or so till I start to calm down and can relax again.

Because of this I try and play games at lower speeds now to keep from getting to dizzies, anyone else have that experience?

If so post the game, symptoms, and remedy.

 

[rottenbutter]

Playing too much territory wars online caused me to sometimes forget that life isn't turn based , it was a weird felling. I then stoped playing for awhile.

 

[ReverseEngineered]

The most I generally get is the inability to sleep at night. I'll lay awake replaying parts of the game, thinking of different strategies and approaches.

Sometimes a good book, movie, or game, will have such a profound effect on me (like Braid or The Matrix) that I'll seriously consider whether or not the real world could be like that. At the very least, the way they speak about the world around us being merely representations, where we are blind to see the real forces at work, is certainly believable. It mostly comes down to having your eyes opened to something that's always been there, you've just never seen it.

I find that eye-opening moment results in what amounts to an out-of-body experience, where I start to think outside myself and question whether my own experience is real or not. If you've never felt it before, believe me, it's quite uplifting -- if not a little frightening.

 

[mjhhiv]

After playing way too much of The Orange Box, whenever I can't see something very well, I uses my thumb to click an imaginary right stick. That has got to be the worst.

 

[RetiarySword]

Sins of a Solar Empire, I played an 8 hour long game, and when I went to sleep, my head was trying to check my tax income and metal extraction rate! Didn't stop me next morning though!

 

[boyitsme95]

I find myself honestly beliving a man can carry a melee weapon, pistol, SMG, shotgun, machine gun, rifle, sniper, rocket launcher, grenades, and eccentric weapon all without showing any of it.

 

[TerribleTerryTate]

I must admit, if I don't play TF2 at least once a day I feel a little weird. I just can't get to sleep at night unless I've heard the Heavy sadistically laughing as he pummels people, or the Engineers with their classic: 'There's a spy sappin' my sentry!'

 

[excessum ado]

Whenever I drive past a caravan and see a gas tank on the back I go back to Dead Rising and think 'okay now if i wait for more enemies to crowd around I can shoot that and make a path straight to my next objective.'

 

[IanB.]

When I was going through my Wow phase, I carried a rock around and took it out whenever i drove (or got driven home) to act like a hearthstone. I'm not kidding, my mom thinks I'm crazy.

 

[Magnetic2]

Oh man, these are great, keep 'em coming people.

I often try to measure how to plan my day according to what my sims would do.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I know its old but Tony Hawks UnderGround, the restart bit for challenges I kept pausing and moving the analog stick down even when I wasn't playing that game just through force of habit from doing it so repetitively.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I used to play Puzzle Pirates (don't laugh). Whenever I closed my eyes to sleep, I would envision the carpentry mini-game in my head, and kept cycling through different pieces again and again and again and again...

It was fucked up. I had to take a break from that shit.

 

[Arntor]

I often try to measure how to plan my day according to what my sims would do.

Likewise, whenever I use the little boys' room or take a shower, or do anything, I would imagine it as if I'm a Sim filling up the Needs bar.


And I know I need to get away from TF2 (or at least, the Spy class) when I start holding out my wrist for no reason. Hell, I don't even wear a watch.

 

[gr33ny76]

when you have a cigarette and can feel your sanity returning...

 

[Janus Vesta]

I stick to walls and try to stay out of sight due to playing Splintercell and Rainbow Six for a few years.

I used to think 'Why aren't they crouched?' when I saw someone in the open.

 

[Rob Sharona]

Don't know about that. I know when I play a puzzle game intensively (recent examples are Meteos for DS and Lumines for PSP) that all I can see when I close my eyes or when I become just a little bit unfocussed are these chuffing games playing in my head. It drives me fucking mad sometimes.

 

[Zombies]

Whenever i play any type of first person shooter (Halo, Call of duty, Splinter Cell etc.) i'm constantly checking behind me to see if there is anyone waiting to kill me. This goes on for about a month.

Also when ever i die by falling in any game when i go to sleep that night i always feel a falling sensation

 

[slyder35]

When I sit down in the office at my work computer and my left hand automatically defaults to the WASD keyboard position. Gah.

I also had a period where I used Teamspeak alot in WoW, and would sometimes accidently hold CTRL on my keyboard while talking to work colleagues! Luckily they didn't notice!